Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Permanence of Words

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A topic I've thought about quite a bit and have written around, but never quite about, is why I like writing. Now, this blog is all abou...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Fast Company Magazine - 100 Most Creative People in Business

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In it's June 2010 issue Fast Company published it's annual list of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" . I expecte...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Petraeus Assignment & Kagan Nomination - Time Magazine

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Two pieces of note to me from the July 5 issue of Time Magazine . Both were about personnel decisions from President Barack Obama and while...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Sports Illustrated Stories - the Macon Ironmen & Stephen Strasburg

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Couple of stories of note from the last two issues of Sports Illustrated . The first was interesting for the topic covered and second for th...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

"Lost in My Own Backyard" by Tim Cahill

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Finished reading earlier today "Lost in My Own Backyard" by Tim Cahill ( author wikipedia page here ). Cahill is a travel writer ...

"Fire" by Sebastian Junger

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Recently finished reading "Fire" by Sebastian Junger . Junger is best known for writing "The Perfect Storm" (excellent...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill Cover Story from Time

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Good cover story from Bryan Walsh in the June 10 issue of Time Magazine . Titled "The Gulf Disaster: Whose Asses Need Kicking?" ...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Doing it Right: SI Pieces on John Wooden & Joyce/Galarraga

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Two good (and very related to one another) features from the June 14 issue of Sports Illustrated . The cover story from Alexander Wolff is ...

Investing Approaches... & BusinessWeek May 6 Market Drop Piece

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Interesting piece in BusinessWeek recently that made me think of the larger question of investing and how to go about it. People work hard ...
Friday, June 11, 2010

A Loss of Control: Running (or Hoping to Run) a Public Company

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So... you start a company and want to run it a certain way... and take venture capital fund and go public. Sounds like a logical (though sti...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Roger Ebert Blog Essay on Race & Racism

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Great great piece from Roger Ebert on racism. Titled "How do they get to be that way?" the essay focuses first on the mural fla...
Saturday, June 05, 2010

Sports Illustrated on Baseball Phenoms Strasburg & Harper

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Love me the idea of a phenom in sports. So interesting to think about athletes with practically limitless potential and then to see what the...
Friday, June 04, 2010

Tom Verducci & Matt Lauer on Armando Galarraga / Jim Joyce episode

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Really compelling theater from MLB in the last few days that goes beyond sports to being what President Barack Obama might refer to as ...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

"The Age of Wonder" by Richard Holmes

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I wanted to like it... I really did. Recently stopped reading (didn't finish the book, just stopped reading) "The Age of Wonder...
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Recommendation Pieces from Time Magazine

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A couple of interesting pieces from the last two issues of Time around the concept of recommendation... with the first being from the May 3...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Nike "Write the Future" World Cup Video

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I had planned on including this video along with a review of the very cool Franklin Foer book "How Soccer Explains the World" , b...

Sports Illustrated Features: Andy Ferrara & Lionel Messi

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Two very compelling pieces from the May 31 issue of Sports Illustrated . The first was written by David Epstein about West Point cadet An...
Monday, May 24, 2010

"The No-Cry Potty Training Solution" by Elizabeth Pantley

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Just finished "The No-Cry Potty Training Solution" about... yep, potty training. It's very different than the other books r...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Joe Posnanski - A Volumous Portfolio of Words

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Good writing, interesting topics... excellent things both to post about, but another facet of writing that's become a big deal with the ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

May 24 Time Magazine: Roots of Empathy, Personal Branding, Elena Kagan & Lost

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A lot of interesting stuff from the May 24 issue of Time (cover image below). First was "At Center Court: Can Kagan Be a Consensus B...